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Hi everyone !


Here's my latest.
I really tried to achieve photorealism, but didn't succeed...
I don't know how to get this "photo" feel and quality (especially with exteriors)...

- Pathtracing
- I used a HDRI env.map but couldn't achieve getting "sharp" shadows from the trees and objects around
-> so I put a plane far away up in the sky and assigned a powerful Emitter material to it. But the light doesn't look very natural
- I had to tweak the levels quite a lot in post-prod
- Trees are 2D images added in post-prod
- The car and some plants were not modelled by me (taken from the Sketchup Database)

I definitely can't get a natural nor realistic feel to it...
So please please please, any advice would be great for me...
Cheers!

hi, i suggest you to use the daylight environment and place a big plane behind the scene with the texture beckground. If the sun is behind the camera the shadow of the big plane doen't interact with the scene and you have a perfect composition
ciao beppe

Yep, the "backplate" technique...
I'm currently rendering another image using it, thanks.


I think I should also have bevelled some edges - it adds a lot to realism.
Will post some more updates!

Cheers!

- chamfer/bevel all edges
- use alphagrass, at least around the walls of the house (tone gamma so that it matches your texture)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2UOBRS0F - link by radiant
- if you don't use alphagrass, add 3d noise on your grassplate and put better grass texture, with bump/normal displacement too
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/category/freebies/page/2/
- bump the plaster with some noise bumpmap, looks too perfect
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?i ... hua24bhaa3
- roof tiles: diffuse + specular mix
- add normal map to wood/stone wall
- car and chairs out of scale - too big
- garage door add glossyness
- i would add more chrome look to the balcony metals bits
- render with PMC since you have some glass surface?

Get ShaderMap for bumps and normal maps - best 20 USD ever spent.

ciao

KaroBastardKiter wrote:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2UOBRS0F - link by radiant

You didn't read the news recently?

rite, oops
hehe

Wow, so much advice, cool !!!


Many thanks for all this, Karo, I'll sure give all this a go !

Just had a look at ShaderMap, looks damn quick and efficient !!!

yes some more work on the foreground. even if its blurry due the DOF. some curbs at the borders. Otherwise its nice.

Indeed you're right mbetke...
Cheers


...and thanks for saying it's nice